On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 10:05:48AM -0400, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > * Peter Nagel <peter.na...@kit.edu> [2015-07-08 15:12]: > > The problem seems to appear only when jessie is installed to RAID (e.g. > > RAID1)! > > Error message: > > flash-kernel-installer does not find UUID (see the two lines of syslog > > below): > > in-target: UUID eeb34bbe-375a-4dc1-939d-f56b801a4c75 doesn't exist in > > /dev/disk/by-uuid in-target: > > Warning: root device > > /dev/disk/by-uuid/eeb34bbe-375a-4dc1-939d-f56b801a4c75 does not exist > > I received several reports about this recently. I'm surprised because > this used to work just fine. > > I didn't have time to investigate, but I noticed the following partman > errors in the syslog of those affected. Colin, do you know what this > is about? > > Jul 1 10:22:40 partman: mke2fs 1.42.12 (29-Aug-2014) > Jul 1 10:22:45 kernel: [ 8083.996693] EXT4-fs (md0): mounted filesystem with > ordered data mode. Opts: errors=remount-ro > Jul 1 10:22:47 apt-install: Queueing package e2fsprogs for later installation > Jul 1 10:22:47 main-menu[1537]: (process:5300): > /lib/partman/choose_partition/60partition_tree/do_option: > Jul 1 10:22:47 main-menu[1537]: (process:5300): line 88: > Jul 1 10:22:47 main-menu[1537]: (process:5300): > /lib/partman/active_partition/copy/choices: not found
The "copy" operation was removed from partman because parted 3 no longer supports filesystem operations. However, I can't find any references to it in partman code any more. Is this perhaps coming from a preseeded partman recipe or something? Do you have a more complete syslog, preferably with DEBCONF_DEBUG=developer? > On a related note, flash-kernel waits for user input when the UUID of > root is not found, which makes sense in an installed system, but not > in d-i -- for the user, d-i will just hang with no obvious error. Is > there a good way to solve this? In particular, is there a way for a > postinst in /target to detect that it's run from within d-i? KiBi > doesn't know a way. I guess a debconf prompt is the way to go? I think trying to add debconf prompting to an initramfs hook would probably be unwise. flash-kernel already seems to check for DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive, so you could just set that in flash-kernel-installer.postinst when calling flash-kernel. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150716142722.gk23...@riva.ucam.org
